Match-machine.



APPLICATION FILED SEPT.14, 1906.

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PATENTBD SEPT. 24, 1907.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM F. HUTOHIN SON, OF NYAOK, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO SARNIA MATCHCOMPANY, OF SARNIA, ONTARIO, CANADA, A CORPORATION OF CANADA.

MATCH-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 24, 1907.

Application filed September 14,1906. Serial No. 334.608.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM F. HUTCHINSON, of Nyack, Rockland county,and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Match-Machine,of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in match machines, and especiallyto that type of match machines known as continuous machines, and inwhich the match holding frames or carriers are fed opposite mechanismwhich inserts splints therein, the carriers then serbing to convey thesplints to points where they are dipped in the various compositions. Inmachines of this class there is considerable difficulty in keeping thecarriers absolutely steady so that the splints will be correctlyinserted.

The object of my invention is to produce a steadying device which willhold the frames in a very rigid manner while they are passing oppositethe mechanism for inserting match splints therein.

With these ends in view, my invention consists of certain features ofconstruction and combinations of parts which will be hereinafterdescribed and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar reference characters indicatecorresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a front elevation with the carriers in section, of a machineshowing my improvement, and Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view on anenlarged scale, of th mechanism for steadying the carrier.

The machine illustrated has a suitable frame 10, and extendinglongitudinally through the machine are the guide tracks 11 on which runthe carrier frames 12, which pass through in contact with each other,and may be of any length, or may be hinged together if preferred. Asillustrated these frames comprise the side pieces 13, the cross rods 14,and the longitudinal centrally disposed stiffening ribs 15. 1 have shownenough of the rest of the machine merely to illustrate the use of thecarriers. The machine has a driving shaft 17, which through suitablemechanism at 18 moves the cuttingoff knife 19, which severs strips ofveneer, and splints are pushed down into the carrier between the rods 14by the plungers 20. The plungers are worked from the mechanism 21, andthe frames are fed by the gear mechanism shown at 22.

I have not attempted to show the working of the machine, and have shownit only in a general way because my particular guiding mechanism is notlimited to any special form of splint cutting means. It will be observedthat as the frames 12 are fed through the machine they will be heldperfectly steady, as the rib 15 fits snugly in the slot 16 of thecentral guide 16, and this extends longitudinally through the machineparallel with the guide tracks 11, and preferably at a point aboutmidway between the tracks.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent:

1. In a match machine, the combination with the carriers or framesarranged to move longitudinally through the machine, of a slotted guide,and a rib on the face of the frames 0]: carriers running in the saidslotted guide.

2. In a match machine, the combination with the splint carrier or frame,of a stationary slotted guide arranged parallel with the movement of theframe, and a rib located between the two sides of the frame and runningin the slotted guide.

WILLIAM F. HUTCHINSON.

Witnesses WARREN B. HUTCHINSON, MARY A. S. MonnLnR.

